Echinoidea - Salenioida - Saleniidae
Full reference: A. Pomel. 1883. Classification méthodique des échinides vivants et fossiles. Adolphe Jourdan, Alger 1-131
Parent taxon: Saleniidae according to J. F. Geys and J. Jagt 1986
See also Fell and Pawson 1966, Geys 1979 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Salenia, Saleniinae, Saleninae, Trisalenia, Valsalenia
Subtaxa: Salenidia bonissenti Salenidia maestrichtensis Salenidia sanctipetri Salenidia schlueteri
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of France (1 collection)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (3)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (7), France (1), Germany (1), the Netherlands (10)
Total: 23 collections including 29 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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